André Schrag

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Could Write His Name
• Occupation: Miller-Likely The Master Miller Enumerated At Hengstbach (=Mittelbach, D 66482) Near Zweibrücken In The German Palatinate In A Census From 1776. Also A Miller At Tenschmuhle In Lorraine
• Religion: Amish
• Residence: 1776, Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR
• Residence: 1781, Oron, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1797, Grostenquin, Linstroff, Moselle, Lorraine, FR

Notes:

Andreas’ descendants migrated to America 1843, 1855.

Hermann Guth says, “Andréas probably belongs here.” However, his birth date doesn’t seem to fit. But there is probably a connection, since Jean Hirgie was a witness to Anna’s marriage and listed as a cousin.

After Suzanne Bachman died, Andréas moved to Lorraine in France and married Suzanne Hirchi before 1781. Lived in Oron (F 57528) near Chateau-Salins in 1781 and in
1797 in Grostenquin near Linstroff. Andreas was named as an “anne Baptiste” miller at the mill of Tenchel in the birth document of son Christian. The mother of Christian is named as Susan Hirche.

Andréas later settled in Vergaville (F 57708) near Dieuze, where he was living with son Andréas at the time of his death in 1809. He was miller at the Tenchel in Lorraine.

In 1805, André’ signed the birth record of his granddaughter, Catherine Schrag, daughter of son André’ and Anne Pelsey.

Translation of death document by Neil Ann Stuckey Levine:
2) Death of André Schrag, widower, 60.  On June 13, 1809, 7 p.m., ... in Vergaville, canton of Dieuze, arrondissement of Château-Salins, department of Meurthe [department of Moselle today], appeared André Schrag, 30, and Joseph Reisinger, 56, both millers, and Gabriel Pierre, 30, leather worker [no French dictionary I have here at home has an entry for "chamoiseur"], all three living in Vergaville, the first a son and the other two acquaintances of André Schrag, fellow miller ["compagnon" can also mean apprentice, but that would hardly apply to the deceased at 60], living in Vergaville, and they have declared that today, at 4 p.m., the said André Schrag, 60, native of Deux-Ponts (Mont-Tonnere) [the short-lived French department of Mont-Tonnere, encompassing Zweibrücken, i.e., Deux-Ponts, in the Palatinate, dates to Napoleon's tremendous expansion of greater France], widow in his second marriage of Suzanne Hergë [Hirschi], died at the home of the first declarer [his like-named son].  And the declarers signed the present death document with me, after it had been read aloud to them, with the exception of André Schrag, son of the deceased, who declared that he does not know how to write or to sign his name.   

André’s descendants are compiled in the voluminous first edition of “Who’s Who in The Schrock Family”, and printed in February 2001 by Kevin J. Willems.
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Individual Note
SCHRAG on his death certificate
SERACH on marriage certificate
Serach Zere in 1839 on Christine's birth certificate
in 1857 it is indicated André Gerard in German Schrag
Gerard on marriage certificate from 1845

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Birth:
- Birth year calculated from birth record of granddaughter Catherine, when his age was given as 52 in 1805. At his death in 1809 his age is given as 60. (A record from Europe gives the birth date os 1753.) PYRENEES ORIENTALES, 66482. Source 1120 gives date as 1742, as does source 1260.

Residence:
Wahlerhof estate at Mittelbach-Hengstbach.

Residence:
Near Chateau-Salins

Residence:
Near Linstroff

Died:
Living with son André’. Death document says he was originally from “Deuxponts (Mont-tonnere)” (Zweibrücken) A widower in second marriage of Suzanne Herge. Father of André Schrag, 30, who reported the death.
Translation of death document by Neil Ann Levine:
2) Death of André Schrag, widower, 60.  On June 13, 1809, 7 p.m., ... in Vergaville, canton of Dieuze, arrondissement of Château-Salins, department of Meurthe [department of Moselle today], appeared André Schrag, 30, and Joseph Reisinger, 56, both millers, and Gabriel Pierre, 30, leather worker [no French dictionary I have here at home has an entry for "chamoiseur"], all three living in Vergaville, the first a son and the other two acquaintances of André Schrag, fellow miller ["compagnon" can also mean apprentice, but that would hardly apply to the deceased at 60], living in Vergaville, and they have declared that today, at 4 p.m., the said André Schrag, 60, native of Deux-Ponts (Mont-Tonnere) [the short-lived French department of Mont-Tonnere, encompassing Zweibrücken, i.e., Deux-Ponts, in the Palatinate, dates to Napoleon's tremendous expansion of greater France], widow in his second marriage of Suzanne Hergë [Hirschi], died at the home of the first declarer [his like-named son].  And the declarers signed the present death document with me, after it had been read aloud to them, with the exception of André Schrag, son of the deceased, who declared that he does not know how to write or to sign his name.   

André married Suzanne Bachmann on 20 Feb 1805. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Andréas /Schrag (Gerard Serach) was born in 1779 in Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR; died on 1 Mar 1848 in Dombrot-sur-Vair, Vosges, FR.

Family/Spouse: Madeleine Zehr. Madeleine was born in 1746; died on 24 Dec 1795 in Albestroff, Moselle, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Suzanne Schrag was born in 1787 in Imling, Moselle, FR.
2. André Schrag was born in 1793 in Vilsberg, Moselle, FR.

André married Susanne Christine Hirschy (Hirschi) before 1781. Susanne died on 15 Apr 1799 in Vergaville, Dieuze, Moselle, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Simon Schrag (Schrack) was born in 1781 in Oron, Moselle, FR; died on 23 Dec 1856 in Saint-Ouen-Lès-Parey, Vosges, FR.
2. Pierre Schrag (Serach) was born in 1791 in Sarreguemines, Moselle, FR; died on 5 Aug 1854 in Gondrecourt-le-Château, Meuse, FR.
3. Christophe Schrag (Gerard) was born on 26 Oct 1797 in Grostenquin, Moselle, Lorraine, FR; died on 26 Dec 1850 in Chassey Beaupré, Meuse, FR; was buried in Chassey Beaupré, Meuse, FR.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Mennonite
• Residence: 1776, Hornbach, Palatinate, GR

Notes:

He went to Falkenstein, Galicia and later Russia. Many of the children of this couple lived and died in Volhynia, Ukraine.

Residence:
near Zweibrücken

Johannes married Elisabeth Albrecht in 1760 in Albisheim An Der Eis, Obrigheim, Palatinate, GR. Elisabeth (daughter of Michael Albrecht) was born in 1745 in Hermersbergerhof, Wilgartswiesen, Sudwestpfalz, GR, Wilgartswiesen, Sudwestpfalz, GR; died in 1796 in Wischenka, Tschernigov, Russia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Daughter of Michael Albrecht of Hermersbergerhof. There were Albrechts at Hemersbergerhof around 1810, according to Herbert Hage in his book Mennonites in Bavaria.

Birth:
Peter Schrag gives date as 1739

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Religion: Anabaptist
• Residence: 1735, Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR

Notes:

“Ulrich, son of Caspar, anabaptist and court renter in Ernstweiler, will because of the command by the dominion, be married to Elisabeth Meyer, a servant maid from Switzerland, on June 6, 1735, because of premature sleeping together without a proclamation, to Ernstweiler (Ernstweiler church book).” (Info from book by Ernst Drum, Zur Geschicht der Mennoniten Herzogtum Pfalz-Zweibrücken, 1962.)

"on orders from His Lordship marries his maidservant, Elisabeth Mayer."
Source has the following children listed for Ulrich and Elisabeth Mayer [Meyer]: Ulrich ca 1740, Johannes, Andreas, Magdalena, Anna.

Birth:
Ingeweilerhof

Residence:
Leaseholder on Ernstweilerhof near Zweibrücken

Ulrich married Elizabeth Mayer on 6 Jun 1735 in Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR. Elizabeth was born in 1712. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Ernstweilerhof

Notes:

Of Hermersbergerhof, Zweibrücken. He went to Falkenstein, Galicia and later Russia.

Among the workers employed at Hermersbergerhof by Michael Albrecht were Hans Oyer Sr., and Hans Oyer Jr.

Other Events and Attributes:

• HIST: "Schrag-Schrocks came to America at various times and by a number of routes--before 1800 via northern Alsace and the Palatinate, and after 1870 via Volhynia, Russia. The Schrags were one of only three prominent Amish names that originate in the Emmental (along with Troyer and Schwarzentruber)." (This couple may have had a daughter Elisabeth (b. 1722) who is now linked to Caspar Schrag who married Elisabeth Weiss. () It is possible that the Johann Schrag family of “The Children’s Blizzard” was a descendant of Caspar and Elisabeth Leyenberger.
• Religion: Anabaptist
• Baptism: 13 Dec 1685, Wynigen, Bern, SW
• EMPL: 1711, Jebsheim, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FR
• Residence: 1712, Jebsheim, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FR
• Residence: Aft 1712, Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR
• Residence: 1713, Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR
• Residence: 1714, Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR
• Residence: 1733, Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR
• Residence: Aft 1733, Somerset Co., PA

Notes:

The Schrag surname is interpreted as a nickname for a carpenter or a cabinetmaker. "Schrage" in German means a holder or frame from crossed woods used for framework building. The spelling of the surname changed to Schrack, or Chraque in France--Schrock in America. "Schrag/Schrock comes from Schrage (an old name for a special wood combination.)"

In Southern Alsace along the Rhine River, south and east of Colmar, refugees came directly to these towns from Switzerland. Among the refugees listed at Jebsheim after 1700 were: 1700-Ulrich Birky, Steffisburg, worker; 1712-Gaspard (Casper) Schrag and Elisabeth Leyenberger of Wynigen.

!!This individual, Caspar b. 1685, who married Elsbeth Leyenberger, can be traced back to Switzerland, and through him all of the other Anabaptist Schrag branches. 

Virgil Miller, in his book "Both Sides of the Ocean" lists the refugees at Jebsheim, Alsace after 1700 and includes the fact that Gaspard (Caspar) Schrag and Elisabeth Leyenberg of Wynigen were married in 1712 (evidently in Jebsheim). Virgil Miller's research is probably correct.  This means son Caspar was born no later than September/October of 1711 (in Wynigen?), since Anne was born in June of 1712. 

Caspar, as well as other Schrag families moved into the Palatinate area around Zweibrücken. They lived in various places in the Palatinate, including Heckenaschbacherhof, Kaplaneyhof and Ingeweilerhof before leaving for America or going to Lorraine.


Schrag-Schrocks came to America at various times and by a number of routes--before 1800 via northern Alsace and the Palatinate, and after 1870 via Volhynia, Russia. The Schrags were one of three prominent Amish names that originate in the Emmental (along with Troyer and Schwarzentruber).

"In a list of Anabaptists in the Staatsarchiv in Bern, Switzerland, two brothers, Christian and Bendicht Schrag, sons of Ulrich Schrag, are named in 1765. They move from Wynigen-Leumberg in Switzerland to the Munstertal. About this time Schrags of Zweibrücken were already living here. Ulrich Schrag, who is leaseholder (Bestander) on the Ernstweilerhof in 1735, was a son of Caspar Schrag. A Casper Schrag is on the Ingeweilerhof in 1761. It is not clear whether these two individuals were father and son or brothers; the author assumes the latter. In that case, they would both be sons of Caspar Schrag, the father of Ulrich Schrag, who does not otherwise appear in the Palatinate. The following arrangement of descendants of the two brothers has not been proven and is based in part on assumptions."

Birth:
Leumberg farm

Baptism:
Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche (Reformed Church)

EMPL:
Transient farm workers

Residence:
Ingweilerhof

Residence:
Ernstweiler

Caspar married Elsbeth Leyenberger on 9 Aug 1711 in Jebsheim, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FR. Elsbeth (daughter of Ulrich Leyenberger and Anni Zougg (Zaug, Zaugg, Zook)) was born in 1690 in Jebsheim, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Anabaptist

Notes:

Married:
They were given a Catholic marriage ceremony, even though they were Anabaptists.